I think you invented a neologism yourself: neoacademic.

But in this case the higher salary is being paid to attract a recruit with the right skill set. It's nothing to do with seniority or age. It's simple supply/demand - there are probably more programmers with the same skills as the older dev, and fewer with the new, hot skills.

This just reminded me of the South Park episode: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s11e13-guitar-queer-o

As long as the Chinese govt keeps its citizens segregated from the Internet as a whole I don't see how "Chinese" (Mandarin? Cantonese? Shanghainese? etc etc) can become its dominant language. Maybe Arabic (on the back of Islam) is more likely to become the dominant language?

Soap is a detergent which is a class of surfactant which is a class of emulsifier. You're being a little too general in classing egg yolks with soap.

Soap helps you remove bacteria embedded in the grease on your skin. Washing with soap and water removes most of the harmful bacteria that might cause nasty stomach issues or serious infections while leaving behind the generally "beneficial" bacteria.

This is exactly what I was going to say. If you're using Windows workstations in an Active Directory domain this is a fairly straightforward piece of work. Create your own CA. Add the CA's cert to the Trusted Root store on workstations using GPOs. Done. We actually have this configuration - it automates a lot of cert management processes. I can't imagine that it's much harder in a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X environment.

TL; DR.

If the power was out he/she wouldn't be able to read your useless /. post but would, in fact, be able to make a 'phone call from his/her landline. The landlines ("subscriber loops") are powered by the telcos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service

I'm not on Death Row but I'd volunteer for this. I'd love to be the first human on Mars. Even if it's a 1-way trip.

Don't worry: logging on, starting IE12 and Outlook 2015 will still take 10 minutes.

There's an app for that, probably.

DRDOS!

You subscribe to a newspaper or return to the page, or look at other stories with headlines adjacent to the first story etc. You are paying attention to the content in some way. You are "engaging" with the author/editor. Similarly - Slashdot attracts an audience that might not always comment or moderate a specific story but the audience does pay some attention to the site. Conversely - the authors of the study are finding that most tweets are simply not interesting enough to generate discussion, or are intended to be one-way announcements. Twitter seems designed to appease narcissists who are convinced that everything they do or say is of earth-shattering consequence.